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oh my god there's a movie based on a penny arcade thing coming out

After tasting success of its first non-DreamWorks Animation-produced
animated film Rango, Paramount is jumping into the medium again with New Kid.
The project is an adaptation of an online comic from Penny Arcade. The
studio has picked up rights and tapped Book of Eli writer Gary
Whitta to pen the script. Mary Parent and Cale Boyter are producing via
their studio-based Disruption Entertainment.
The premise spins the feeling of being a new kid in school into an intergalactic story when the kid happens to be the lone earthling in a school chock full of aliens.
Penny Arcade, created by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, is one of the few viable webcomic sites that has grown into its own little fiefdom, with a blog, video games, podcasts and an online TV show.
Part of the impetus for New Kid is that Paramount is coming to the end of its current DWA distribution deal. Insiders say the studio is looking for a well of animated fare to potentiall fill that part of its pipepline if a new DWA pact can't be worked out. While there isn’t likely to be a Pixar-like animated division at Paramount any time soon, the studio knows it needs to be in that lucrative game, with or without Jeffrey Katzenberg. Rango, released in March, grossed more than $240 million worldwide.
Parent just set up at Paramount the DC Comics property The Mighty, one of the few titles that was allowed to escape from parent company Warner Bros., which normally handles any screen adaptations.
Whitta is repped by UTA and Circle of Confusion.

I wonder if they'll base the character designs off of Mike's art, or whether they're really just taking the 'kid shows up on a new planet' idea. Now I want to see awesome 3D movies of all the PA side projects.

I wonder if they'll base the character designs off of Mike's art, or whether they're really just taking the 'kid shows up on a new planet' idea. Now I want to see awesome 3D movies of all the PA side projects.

I wonder if they'll base the character designs off of Mike's art, or whether they're really just taking the 'kid shows up on a new planet' idea. Now I want to see awesome 3D movies of all the PA side projects.

Fruit Fucker: Trouble in Orange Town would make a good Pixar short.

I would love to see that.

Automata and Lookouts would also make great animated movies, they have such distinctive style.

New Kid is a pretty vague idea based on only that single comic, but that's probably appealing to studios so I imagine it had something to do with why this particular idea was picked up.

That's amazing. It's not even like they licensed their webcomic empire intellectual property into a film - this was just a one-off strip idea. It's like making bank off of a hunch, or a "wouldn't it be cool if...?" musing.